Legislature 2025-26: Senate Ways & Means Committee (Ron Muzzall)

State Senator Ron Muzzall (R-Oak Harbor) serves on the Senate Ways & Means Committee. The committee has scheduled a meeting for Tue., Feb. 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Public Hearing

1. SSB 6037 – Concerning fire protection districts. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
2. SB 6194 – Allowing payments to be made based on allowable costs for services provided by any rural hospital that is located on a federally recognized Indian reservation. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
3. SB 5963 – Modifying funding for the passport to careers program and eligibility for the Washington college grant. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
4. SB 5909 – Reviewing and discontinuing low-enrollment undergraduate programs at public baccalaureate institutions. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
5. SB 5826 – Concerning access at public postsecondary educational institutions to medication abortion. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify

Executive Session

1. SB 5988 – Establishing fee authority for accreditation services provided to opioid treatment programs by the department of health.
2. SB 5872 – Establishing the preK promise account.
3. SB 5879 – Modifying joint legislative audit and review committee work plans to ensure efficient use of staff resources.
4. SB 5834 – Concerning payment of expenses from the earnings of retirement system trust funds.
5. SB 5835 – Concerning the threshold for payment of a lump sum retirement allowance in lieu of a monthly benefit.
6. SB 5905 – Concerning membership in the public employees’ retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan, a union-sponsored defined benefit retirement plan, or another employer-funded private pension plan.
7. SB 5832 – Updating the arbitration fee collected for the new motor vehicle arbitration account.
8. SB 6177 – Modifying the legislative evaluation and accountability program website.
9. 2SSB 5496 – Preserving homeownership options by limiting excessive home buying by certain entities.
10. SB 5970 – Making the property tax exemption for multipurpose senior citizen centers permanent.
11. SB 5994 – Preserving timber tax distributions for school districts with recent school district levy failures.
12. SB 6047 – Concerning statutory guidelines for the administration of state capital projects.
13. SB 5647 – Providing a real estate excise tax exemption for the sale of qualified affordable housing.

Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSI/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature’s committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules